PEACE campaigner Pat Sanchez's plans to pay her fine by submarine have been torpedoed.

Ms Sanchez went to Helensburgh District Court, near Glasgow, on Wednesday to pay her fine from when she was arrested outside the Faslane Trident nuclear submarine base last August.

She had made a Trident submarine model out of cheques she had been sent by people who responded to her request for support.

But when she tried to hand it to the court in payment of the fine, it was refused and she was told she would have to go to the court at Loch Gilphead.

Ms Sanchez, of Littleborough, said: "This would have added three hours to my journey. So when I asked again if I could pay there I was told it couldn't be accepted because the cheques were made out by lots of different people who weren't responsible for the fine.

"Court officers then suggested I make the cheques payable to myself but when I rang my bank they told me I couldn't do this."

Ms Sanchez was forced to return home without having paid her fine, which was due yesterday.

She has now had to dismantle the submarine and put all the cheques in an envelope to send them to the Loch Gilphead court.

She said: "I've told the court I'm sure the cheques won't bounce and I hope they accept them this time.

"I've had a really good response since I said what I was going to do and a lot of people have said they thought it was a really good idea."